Archive for 'General'
Czechs have created an efficient system of stolen phones’ blocking
1 February 2008Czech police has declared that the new technology of stolen mobile phones’ blocking, launched in the country in October, 2007, has shown quite good results.
6700 stolen mobile have been blocked since last October, informs company Software602, which has created the special system of blocking.
New technology blocks the phone in such a way, that […]
Sea pirates became more active
29 January 2008The amount of registered cases of sea piracy for the last year has increased by 10 % in comparison with the last year, is informed in the report of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB).
263 piracy attacks have been registered in 2007, while in 2006 - only 239.
According to IMB’s report, in 2007 pirates became better […]
Latvians illegally turn Russians, Byelorussians and Ukrainians into Europeans
15 January 2008The police of Latvia disclosed the criminal group consisted of government officials who trade in the Latvian passports.
19 officials are detained on suspicion of counterfeiting and sale of EU passports.
The main buyers of illegal passports were Byelorussians, and also Russian and Ukrainians. According to representatives of the Latvian security police, these documents were not […]
Turkey has passed the revolutionary antitobacco law
10 January 2008The parliament of Turkey has approved the bill of a complete ban of smoking in public places.
The bill forbids smoking in places of entertainments, including cafes and restaurants, stadiums, transport, in a taxi, in particular, trains, and also commercials of tobacco products, their mentioning in films, serials and in musical clips.
Infringement of the law […]
Death penalty in China will be more humane
7 January 2008The Chinese officials declare planned transition to more humane way of a death penalty: in the long term shootings will be completely replaced with a lethal injection.
It has declared by the vice-president of the Supreme National Court of China Tsian Sinchang.
As he said, this step has been positively taken by condemned and members of […]
The government of Egypt is going to forbid creation of pyramids’ copies
31 December 2007The Egyptian members of parliament are going to pass the law which will forbid creation of copies of pyramids and sphinxes without the permission of Egyptian authorities.
To receive the permission, wishing to create a copy will have to make a corresponding payment. Money will go to maintain historical monuments.
The question is about some kind […]
Doctors without borders are abducted in Somalia
28 December 2007Unknown armed people have stolen two Spanish employees of the international independent organization Doctors without borders.
The incident has taken place in area Pantlend in the north of Somalia. According to the eyewitness, six armed people have blocked road to the automobile with two employees of the organization Doctors without borders.
Unknown persons have captured women and […]
Nepal has legalized unisexual love
25 December 2007The Supreme Court of Nepal has decided to give equal rights to representatives of all sexual orientations.
Up to the decision of the Court the legislation of Nepal did not provide punishment for homosexuality, however, representatives of non-traditional orientation could spend behind bars till one year for infringement of the clause “the unnatural coitus”.
The Supreme […]
Parents in Spain are forbidden to whip children
24 December 2007The Congress of deputies (Parliament) of Spain has approved the bill, which forbids parents to whip children.
Until now parents were authorized “to correct reasonably and moderately behavior” of their offsprings.
However the Spanish deputies have changed this paragraph. The new variant of the Civil Code creates physical inviolability of children, transfers Reuters.
The ruling socialists of […]
The Mexican drug mafia shoots off musicians: 13 victims for 1,5 years
21 December 2007In Mexican criminal wars between drug mafia gangs perish rockabilly musicians. 13 victims for 1,5 years, and three of them have died for the last two weeks.
All of the murders remain disclosed. The society can only guess about motives of this tragic and frightening tendency, writes The New York Times.
Abduction of the soloist […]
